Ode to a Nightingale-Mark Bradshaw

[ti:Ode to a Nightingale] [ar:Mark Bradshaw] [al:Bright Star (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode to a Nightingale (夜莺颂) - Mark Bradshaw [00:32.92]My heart aches [00:34.00] [00:34.92]And a drowsy numbness pains my sense [00:37.06] [00:38.38]As though of hemlock I had drunk [00:39.90] [00:41.19]Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains [00:43.72]One minute past and lethe wards had sunk [00:46.62] [00:48.55]'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot [00:50.49] [00:51.51]But being too happy in thine happiness [00:53.73] [00:54.84]That thou light winged dryad of the trees [00:57.24] [00:58.01]In some melodious plot [00:59.38]Of beechen green and shadows numberless [01:01.74] [01:02.53]Singest of summer in full throated ease [01:04.93] [01:07.91]O for a draught of vintage that hath been [01:10.83]Cool'd a long age in the deep delved earth [01:12.94] [01:13.97]Tasting of flora and the country green [01:15.98] [01:16.90]Dance and provencal song and sun burnt mirth [01:19.91] [01:21.39]O for a beaker full of the warm south [01:23.50] [01:24.44]Full of the true the blushful hippocrene [01:27.04] [01:28.22]With beaded bubbles winking at the brim [01:30.20] [01:30.90]And purple stained mouth [01:32.24] [01:33.84]That I might drink and leave the world unseen [01:36.97] [01:38.28]And with thee fade away into the forest dim [01:40.53] [01:43.18]Fade far away dissolve and quite forget [01:46.78] [01:47.71]What thou among the leaves hast never known [01:49.78] [01:51.14]The weariness the fever and the fret [01:53.41] [01:54.59]Here where men sit and hear each other groan [01:56.86] [01:58.32]Where palsy shakes a few sad last gray hairs [02:01.04] [02:02.56]Where youth grows pale and spectre thin and dies [02:05.66] [02:07.13]Where but to think is to be full of sorrow [02:09.09] [02:09.71]And leaden eyed despairs [02:10.99] [02:12.52]Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes [02:14.58] [02:15.71]Or new love pine at them beyond tomorrow [02:18.04] [02:20.45]Away away for I will fly to thee [02:23.56] [02:24.77]Not charioted by bacchus and his pards [02:26.94] [02:27.96]But on the viewless wings of poesy [02:29.69] [02:30.97]Though the dull brain perplexes and retards [02:33.08] [02:34.68]Already with thee tender is the night [02:37.53] [02:38.69]And haply the queen moon is on her throne [02:40.74] [02:41.65]Cluster d around by all her starry fays [02:43.70] [02:45.14]But here there is no light [02:46.37] [02:47.35]Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown [02:49.65]Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways [02:52.40] [02:54.99]I cannot see what flowers are at my feet [02:57.10] [02:58.36]Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs [03:00.69] [03:01.84]But in embalmed darkness guess each sweet [03:05.08]Wherewith the seasonable month endows [03:07.17]The grass the thicket and the fruit tree wild [03:09.48] [03:10.84]White hawthorn and the pastoral eglantine [03:12.90] [03:14.03]Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves [03:16.54] [03:17.66]And mid may's eldest child [03:19.13] [03:20.15]The coming musk rose full of dewy wine [03:23.02] [03:24.35]The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves [03:26.81] [03:30.19]Darkling I listen and for many a time [03:34.34]I have been half in love with easeful death [03:36.38] [03:38.12]Call'd him soft names in many a mused rime [03:40.43] [03:41.60]To take into the air my quiet breath [03:43.54] [03:45.59]Now more than ever seems it rich to die [03:47.55] [03:49.02]To cease upon the midnight with no pain [03:50.98] [03:52.51]While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad [03:54.88]In such an ecstasy [03:55.80] [03:57.30]Still wouldst thou sing and I have ears in vain [04:00.72] [04:02.14]To thy high requiem become a sod [04:04.05] [04:07.30]Thou wast not born for death immortal bird [04:09.54] [04:11.27]No hungry generations tread thee down [04:13.58] [04:15.40]The voice I hear this passing night was heard [04:17.78]In ancient days by emperor and clown [04:19.55] [04:21.30]Perhaps the self same song that found a path [04:23.73]Through the sad heart of ruth when sick for home [04:27.31]She stood in tears amid the alien corn [04:28.98] [04:31.11]The same that oft times hath [04:32.71]Charm'd magic casement opening on the foam [04:36.08]Of perilous seas in faery lands forlorn [04:38.85] [04:41.52]Forlorn the very word is like a bell [04:45.08] [04:45.76]To toll me back from thee to my sole self [04:48.20] [04:49.51]Adieu the fancy cannot cheat so well [04:53.15]As she is fam'd to do deceiving elf [04:55.06] [04:56.04]Adieu adieu thy plaintive anthem fades [05:00.32] [05:01.47]Past the near meadows over the still stream [05:04.16] [05:05.18]Up the hill side and now 'tis buried deep [05:08.92]In the next valley glades [05:10.15] [05:12.03]Was it a vision or a waking dream [05:14.69] [05:16.23]Fled is that music do I wake or sleep